Concrete fence-post.



UNITEDv STATES PATENT OFFICE.

oHARLEs' KUBACH, oF ABILENE, KANSAS.

CONCRETE FENCE-POST.

. Speciication of Letters Patent.

I Applicationled August 17, 1907. Serial No, 389,027.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

To all ivhomit 'may concern.' v

' Be it knownrthat I, CHARLES'KUBACH, a citizen of the United States, 'residing at Abilene,'in. thefcounty of Dickinson andState of: Kansas, have invented new andv useful Imrovements in Concrete Fencel e Posts, Vof.

I -which thefpllowing vis a specification.-

My 'invention relates to concrete fencel posts. f

l with a concrete fence post,"rneans for attachfi mentof vthe Vfence wires, andV invention relates vto that. general class of fence posts.

Theobject of the presentjnvention is thev provlslon' of a concrete fence post reinforced wlth wire and provided with 'awire of novel construction', made in one piece and molded ost while it isV being manufactured,` whlch as novel anchoring devices; and is alsoprovided with no vel bends in the form of staples for. reception of the fence wires .Fand a apted for use in connection with a fastening key or keys, all'as fully set forth here- 'inafter and recited in theapp'endedclaims.

' isa front elevation; Fig. 2 is la sectional'ele- `va'tion showing the embedded wire in full i' yn the accompanying drawings z-Figure .1-

A lines; Fig. 3 is a cross-section online 3-3 of Fig.. 2; and Fi l4 is y'a pers ective detail of Vone of the dou le bent stap es forming part of the wire.

\ The. numeral l1 designates a concrete fence post, which maybe molded in any desired shape and' manner.

During the process of molding thepost, there is embedded therein a single wirey which has angular anchoring members 2 and 3 at its up er and lower ends and is bent into lateral ouble staples 4 of the construction shown in Fig. 4 at different points'of its length, the outer ends or bent parts 5 of these staplesprojecting in vertical alinement for the reception of the fence' wires 6 between the members of each double staple, the .fence wires being held byv a removable locking key, "of Wire, 7 lHowever, itis obvious .that each fence wire 6 may have its separate fastening key or certain of the fence wires may be locked by a key and others by other keys.

-The reinforcing wire comprises a plurality of straight ortions disposed lengthwise in the post and intermediate ortions forming integral loops havingflateral y .extending legs l 4 lying preferably inthe same 'vertical plane,

It has lbeen proposed heretofore .to-mold in the closed end 4 of each loop being bent back. and embeddedv in the post at a polnt more er less adjacent to thestraight portions ofthe Wire, but at one side thereof; vthereby forming upper and lower staples '4a 4". This structure can be easily and cheaply made,

mortar immediately after' vfilling .the mold. v The anchors 2 and' 3 preventany pulling outv of the wire andso also do the closed ends 4c ofthe loops forming the double staples, and the formation of all of the staples in one integral piece of wire renders the embedding of the fence wire attachingv device in the post as -itis being moldeda most simple and easy operation, whereas it has heretofore been a troublesome' and more or less tedious step on account of the staples being separate from or independentof each other,

Theprovision of the laterally extending staples with the longitudinallyextending arrangement of the wire and the anchors, reinforces the post very strongly. The use of a single key enables the fence Wiresto bemore rapidly attached to or removed from the post.

Reinforcing wires 10, (Fig. 3) either crimped or twisted, are embedded in the four corners ofthe post and extend longitudinally thereofnearly from end to end, or to any de' sired extent', which greatly strengthen it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to securel by Letters Patent, is

A concrete fence post provided with a combined reinforcing and fence-wire-holdinfr` device comprising a single wire composed .mainly of straight po tions disposed length- Awise invsaid'post,4 an intermediate portlons CHARLES KUBACH.

` Witnesses:

JAMES F. AUGUs'rINE, THADDEUs C; COLE.

.and can -be readily inserted into `the soft 

